El Gounah will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind Al Ittihad.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Premier League.
El Gounah form and stats
El Gounah have played 8 Premier League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-1-4 (wins-draws-losses).
The home team returns to El-Gouna Stadium after being equal after 90 minutes with Ismaily (placed 9th) on their last time out; the Premier League game ended 1-1. 2-2 away at Haras El Hodood before that.
The hometeam coach L. Barny Monteiro made a successful contribution in the game against Ismaily, bringing on W. Bwalya who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw.
The manager L. Barny Monteiro will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Misr Lel Makasa in only four days.
Gounah have scored 5 league goals here from 8 matches, not a lot. On the other hand, Gounah have conceded 11 goals.
Al Ittihad form and stats
4 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Al Ittihad playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.
Ittihad's last game was the home draw against Zamalek (1-1). A 0-1 loss hosting Aswan before that.
The draw against Zamalek came from a losing position. The Ittihad manager T. Youssef brought on Ahmed Rashed as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.
A new game in only four days for Ittihad, the Premier League home match versus Al Masry. Busy days.
Ittihad have scored 8 goals on their travels this season, from 8 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Ittihad as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
El Gounah and Al Ittihad have met before this season: Al Ittihad - El Gounah 1-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): El Gounah zero wins, four draws and Al Ittihad six victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  K. Kamar 14 goals |  A. Mohamed 7 goals | R. Cissé 7 goals |
El Gounah missing players
Al Ittihad missing players
| El Gounah | Al Ittihad | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 8 | 18 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 15 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 24 | 11 | 6 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 14 |
| 89% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 75% | 83% |
| 61% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 38% | 50% |
| 33% | 25% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 38% | 28% |
| 22% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 11% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 39% | 12% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 12% | 33% |
| 28% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 62% | 44% |
| 44% | 50% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 39% |
| 5.8 | 5.1 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4 | 4.9 |
| 4.2 | 4.8 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.4 | 5.7 |
| 2 | 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 185 | 108 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 21 | 48 | 114 |
| 64 | 35 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 19 | 46 |
| 23% | 14% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 11% | 37% | 30% |
- Al Ittihad have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Al Ittihad have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- El Gounah has the fewest scored goals (5) at home
- El Gounah have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Al Ahly | 18 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 44 | 52 |
| 2 | Pyramids FC | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 35 |
| 3 | Zamalek | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 35 |
| 4 | Al Mokawloon | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 33 |
| 5 | Al Ittihad | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 28 |
| 6 | Smouha | 18 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 25 |
| 7 | ENPPI | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -2 | 25 |
| 8 | El Entag El Harby | 17 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 23 |
| 9 | Ismaily | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 22 |
| 10 | Al Masry | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| 11 | El Gounah | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -9 | 20 |
| 12 | Haras El Hodood | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | -1 | 19 |
| 13 | Aswan | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 14 | -9 | 18 |
| 14 | Misr Lel Makasa | 18 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 14 | -7 | 17 |
| 15 | El Geish | 19 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -8 | 17 |
| 16 | Tanta | 19 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 26 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 16 | -12 | 16 |
| 17 | Wadi Degla | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 27 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 9 | -10 | 15 |
| 18 | Masr | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 17 | -16 | 11 |